# I have a suggestion for the mods
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557
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**Created:** [August 31, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557 "2007-08-31T00:46:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/1 "2007-08-31T00:46:40Z")
Frequently, our esteemed mods like to participate in threads as a regular Doper. Sometimes, confusion can arise when opining. Is the mod being a mod or being a Doper?
I know we have the [mod hat on][/mod hat off] method, but I would like to suggest something different.
When our esteemed mods are chatting with us regular folk, they chat. However, when they have to go into jackbooted hall monitor mode, **I would suggest they start posting like this. This will also bring attention to the scolding, and help to eliminate the excuse that “I didn’t know I was warned!”** Then there can be no misunderstanding as to when they’re acting as mods and when they’re acting as Dopers.
Yes, no, maybe?
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### Author:  [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/2 "2007-08-31T00:48:44Z")
This was discussed before, and as far as I’m aware, the consensus was essentially that things are fine the way they are.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/3 "2007-08-31T00:49:22Z")
I must have missed the discussion. Anyway, it was just a thought, not a petition drive to enact change.
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### Author:  [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/4 "2007-08-31T03:03:28Z")
And if you happen to be red/green colorblind, then what?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/5 "2007-08-31T08:46:58Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster]
And if you happen to be red/green colorblind, then what?
[/QUOTE]
This post has been redgreened by the redgreengrocer
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/6 "2007-08-31T12:35:55Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster]
And if you happen to be red/green colorblind, then what?
[/QUOTE]
You could still see the bolded letters.
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### Author:  [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/7 "2007-08-31T12:43:37Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout]
This post has been redgreened by the redgreengrocer
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what did you do to it?
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### Author:  [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/8 "2007-08-31T12:47:58Z")
[QUOTE=Sapo]
what did you do to it?
[/QUOTE]
He’s got some fancy shmancy program he wrote that does all the work for him. 😉
Don’t let him fool you, he didn’t spend any time coding that. 😃
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### Author:  [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/9 "2007-08-31T12:52:58Z")
“Jackbooted hall monitor”?
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### Author:  [@WhyNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyNot)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/10 "2007-08-31T13:08:03Z")
[QUOTE=Duckster]
And if you happen to be red/green colorblind, then what?
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(Just an ignorance fightin’ side note, red/green colorblind doesn’t mean that red and/or green is invisible or looks black. It means that a red/green colorblind person can’t distinguish red from green. So the “redgreengrocer’s” post would look all one color within the quote box, but it would still look different from the regular default color and it would be legible. Carry on.)
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### Author:  [@Micro\_Dot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Micro_Dot)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/11 "2007-08-31T18:39:17Z")
To see what red-green colorblind is like, look through a piece of green celophane. Be sure it covers the whole field of vision. In a couple of minutes your eyes adjust and you can tell lots of colors and many thing look natural, but looking around the room some things will be odd.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/12 "2007-08-31T20:57:46Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense]
He’s got some fancy shmancy program he wrote that does all the work for him. 😉
Don’t let him fool you, he didn’t spend any time coding that. 😃
[/QUOTE]
Actually, I did that one by hand.
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### Author:  [@Canadjun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Canadjun)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2007, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/13 "2007-09-01T15:29:48Z")
[QUOTE=Micro Dot]
To see what red-green colorblind is like, look through a piece of green celophane. Be sure it covers the whole field of vision. In a couple of minutes your eyes adjust and you can tell lots of colors and many thing look natural, but looking around the room some things will be odd.
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But wouldn’t red be dark and green be light under those circumstances? I’m not sure what variant of colour-blindness that would simulate, but I don’t think it would be red-green.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/14 "2007-09-01T21:51:50Z")
[QUOTE=Canadjun]
But wouldn’t red be dark and green be light under those circumstances?
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Yes, although dark green and red would look quite similar, so you wouldn’t be able to tell those apart.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [September 2, 2007, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-a-suggestion-for-the-mods/417557/15 "2007-09-02T02:05:12Z")
I can’t tell the Olsen Twins apart, either.
Nor Danny Devito and The Governator in that silly movie about genetics.
Come to think of it, I can’t even tell Lindsey Lohan and a tube of hair gel apart.
I think my meds may be colour coded …